@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15462,
            	author={Giulietti, Corrado and Vlassopoulos, Michael and Zenou, Yves},
            	title={When Reality Bites: Local Deaths and Vaccine Take-up},
            	year={2022},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={15462},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15462},
	abstract={We investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic granularity. We find that vaccination take-up as of November 2021 is positively associated with pre-vaccine COVID-19-related deaths, controlling for demographic, economic, and health-related characteristics of the localities, while including geographic fixed effects. In addition, the share of ethnic minorities in a locality is negatively associated with vaccination rates, and localities with a larger share of ethnic minorities increase their vaccination rates if they are exposed to more COVID-related-deaths. Further evidence on vaccination intention at the individual level from a representative sample corroborates these patterns. Overall, our evidence suggests that social proximity to victims of the disease triggers a desire to take protective measures against it.},
	keywords={vaccination hesitancy;COVID-19;social interactions;information;behavior change},
            }